With Guardian Edinburgh drawing to a close today, I've been encouraged to take a look back at some of its best moments. There are well over 1,000 posts to choose from, so forgive me if I've missed out your favourite! Let us know your thoughts in the comment box below.

March 2010: bridge row, cuts and political bloggers

Tom Allan kicked things off in March by visiting the Scottish parliament to hear South Queensferry residents speaking out against plans for a new Forth road bridge.

He also met up with two Holyrood-based bloggers, one of whom went on to become an MSP, and mapped out what the local council's proposed budget cuts looked like.

We also had our very first guest post, by Alistair Tibbitt of Greener Leith, who encouraged locals to report problems in their area using the Fix My Street online tool.

April 2010: tram complaints and the first of two ash clouds

It didn't take long for the hot topic of Edinburgh Trams to get a mention on the blog. Tom highlighted prolific citizen journalist Michael Traill's work in uncovering 472 complaints about the tram roadworks, via the What Do They Know website.

Ahead of the May election, Tom swung by Causewayside's Bike Station where Nick Clegg was campaigning. Rather than give the Liberal Democrat leader all the attention, we let the bike charity's staff have their say on local issues.

The ash cloud from Iceland cost Edinburgh's businesses "hundreds of millions of pounds" according to this report. No doubt we'll see similar reports about this year's ash cloud soon.

May 2010: the election and Gorgie mem campaign

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Tom had plenty of election coverage on the blog at the start of the month. See all the posts in this list. Labour won four of the city's five Westminster seats, a feat the SNP went on to emulate in May 2011.

Edinburgh also had a visit from new prime minister David Cameron, attracting a hostile reception from some locals.

Campaigners battling to save the Gorgie War Memorial Hall gave the council 2,800 signatures on a petition.

June 2010: Gormleys arrive and a care scandal

In June Alan McIntosh of the Broughton Spurtle told us how he and an army of helpers put their community paper together, rain or shine.

The Gormley statues arrived in Edinburgh this month, causing some excitement along the Water of Leith and beyond.

The council's failures in tendering disabled care services hit the headlines on more than one occasion, prompting apologies from the council leaders.

July 2010: airport charge, NEN threatened and global trams

Mary Burnside, NEN editor. Photo: Tom Allan/guardian.co.uk

Geo-tag data helped to show Edinburgh's most photographed areas in this map.

Plans for a new £1 charge for drivers to drop people off outside the airport raised huge controversy this month, in a story that took months to conclude.

Another story to be agonisingly drawn out over the next few months was the 100% cut in funding for local community newspapers, including the North Edinburgh News.

Tom celebrated community collaboration with the blog as he said his goodbyes.

Stepping into the breach for the summer was Nick Eardley, who got stuck into uncovering aspects of the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe that appeal to locals, not just visitors.

While Edinburgh's tram project continued to stumble, we launched a series on trams around the world, starting with Bordeaux and Manchester.

The protest ended with us asking questions about an alleged oil slick nearby the bank HQ.

September: council cuts in detail and the Pope arrives

We got the first glimpse of the City of Edinburgh Council's ultimately successful bid to slash £90 million from its budget. Among those threatened by cuts were blind and disabled staff at Craigmillar's Blindcraft bed-making factory. We covered their story in detail over the following months, with more than 50 reports. But they ultimately lost their fight, and their jobs.

Continuing the global trams series, local writer Phyllis Stephen gave us a multimedia guest post on Dublin's Luas tram.

October 2010: Controversial nursery closures

Controversial modern plans for the historic Canonmills Bridge guardian.co.uk

What a busy month! Inverleith Park won a Green Flag, we caught the last ever gig at Avalanche Records' old Cockburn Street shop and the council closed a nursery at the top of a block of flats in Gorgie. Parents of two other nurseries got similar news this month and confronted the council's decision makers about the closure plans.

Leith residents and traders were angry to find out that the city's tram line would be likely to miss out Leith when it first opens. Locals in Canonmills raised concerns about a plan for 'monstrous' new flats, which were eventually approved by councillors - who also decided they needed to have an official visit to McDonald's.

Tom Allan returned to share a video of a photographers' flashmob in Multrees Walk after confrontations with security guards over whether they could snap on private land. Officials apologised later in the month.

Thousands of people took to the streets to protest government cuts in the STUC's There is a Better Way rally. Here's our video from the day:

November 2010: More bad tram news and 'wasted' council money

Leithers were again disgruntled by tram project news, as council officials ruled out using an £84 million loan to complete the line to Newhaven. We then learned that the council thought it would be 'ridiculous' to let local people have a say in how the money was spent. Then Edinburgh Trams chairman David Mackay stood down.

The campaign to save Blindcraft was hotting up. Campaigners used the Freedom of Information act to find £1.9m of 'wasted' council money they said could have saved the Craigmillar workforce.

In a further blow, the factory's supporters weren't allowed in to crunch talks over its future. Then the council leader failed to show up to the presentation of a 1,000-name petition.

One particular highlight of the month was biker Danny MacAskill's forwards-flip off Edinburgh Castle. And while covering a student fees protest, I ended up getting locked in to the university as local students began a sit-in demonstration. They eventually fed me and let me go. Thanks guys.

We also helped local filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra raise enough money to get the Rocky theme tune into his short film about Edinburgh rickshaw riders. Here's the trailer of his film, Three-Legged Horses:

February 2011: biomass plans and SNP/Lib Dem council shuts Blindcraft

Forth Energy submitted its plans for a biomass energy plant in Leith Docks, sparking angry exchanges at a community meeting and a protest at the Scottish parliament. See our video of the demonstration here.

We had our most-shared post on the blog this month, as Gordon Millar and Alison Johnstone launched a campaign to ban plastic bags in Edinburgh. The audio post has been shared more than 1,500 times across Facebook and Twitter. Speaking of which, a Conservative councillor caused a wee bit of a stir in questioning Twitter's relevance.

In this video we spoke to Blindcraft staff before and after they witnessed the council voting to shut their factory. We also spoke to the North Edinburgh News staff, who also learned their fate at the council budget meeting.

We ran a series of posts studying regeneration plans for the city's waterfront areas, including Granton and Newhaven.

Another story we've followed closely surrounds the future of Clerk Street's old Odeon cinema, originally named the New Victoria. In February 4,000 people put their names on a petition for it to be saved from demolition. Its future remains uncertain.

March 2011: tiny tree, giant shed and the big biomass debate

So far none of the Scottish Poetry Library staff know who left them this tree made from books | pic: Michael MacLeod guardian.co.uk

Weeks after they were promised, Forth Energy finally gave us the answers to hundreds of questions posed by locals about their plans for a biomass plant in Leith.

We also highlighted the Save Inverleith Park campaign on a number of occasions on the blog, but the most visually exciting post on it was surely this one from the campaign's guerilla lighting event.

Save Inverleith Park guerilla lighting guardian.co.uk

Ewan McIntosh, who was this week voted as Scotland's top social media expert, wrote us this personal view on why he doesn't want a biomass plant near his family home.

Perhaps one of the more controversial guest posts was this one, titled Why Leith needs biomass, by Calum Wilson. From a journalistic point of view, I felt it was only fair both sides of the debate were given an equal playing field, despite one side being rather louder than the other.

Also this month we live-blogged from election hustings with a fellow local blogger and we gave West End residents their chance to talk about tram roadworks polution after the council only gave them ten minutes to sum up two years of scientific research.

Morag Edward shared a wonderful guest post about how the community of Portobello was pulling together to build its second boat.

City-based novelist Sara Sheridan was kind enough to take the time to write and share loads of guest posts for us on the blog. My favourite was about how her niece ended up signing copies of her auntie's book. She also sparked a good debate about whether writers should embrace social media, along with a report on literary snobbery.

We were first to report on plans to build houses on a park in Craigmillar, with inevitable 'outrage' from local people fond of Cairntows Park.

Anti-royalists held a protest on the Royal Mile on the same day as the royal wedding.

The response from local people was massive. Even the council began looking into the cost of canceling the whole scheme. But there is always more than one side to the debate, so we asked tram fans to have their say too, and to some people's surprise, they did.

Thanks!

On a personal note, it's been fascinating and a real privilege to have been part of the experiment. The editor Sarah Hartley will continue to blog on The Northerner blog and I'll continue to tweet local things from @BeatBloggerMike and my own blog.

We've renamed the Twitter account to @GdnScotland and aim to provide our loyal followers with dedicated Scottish news, with @SeverinCarrell in support.

A big thank you to everyone who has contributed to the blog over the past year and a bit!